Corset



- No. 6|9,59o. Patented Feb. I4, 1899.

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(Application fllqi Feb. 7, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIA CANBY MACKEY, OF NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,590, dated February 14, 1899.

Application filed February 7, 1898. Serial No. 669,3 8'7. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIA CANBY MAOKEY, of New Castle, in the county of Lawrence and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Corset, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide certain new and useful improvements in corsets, whereby the wearer is enabled to readily draw the open edges together to conveniently connect the fastening devices with each other and close the corset without danger of hurting the fingers on the sharp edges of the steels or breaking the fin ger-nails during the exertion of closing the corset.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of the improvement as applied to one side of the corset, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The body A of the corset is provided at the front with the usual steel busks B B, carrying the fastening devices 0 for connecting the busks with each other to close the corset. Alongside the inner edges of the busks B B are arranged holders D D, respectively, adapted to be taken hold of by the wearer to draw the open edges of the corset-body toward each other to permit of conveniently fastening the busks together by the devices 0 or unlocking the same when it is desired to remove the corset from the body of the wearer. Each of the holders D D is preferably made of a single strip of fabric material sewed along one edge, as at D to the body A adjacent to the inner edge of the corresponding busk, the strip being also sewed at intervals in a sidewise direction, as at D to the body A, also along a curved line D to form flaps D adapted to be taken hold of by the wearers fingers to draw the edges of the corset together. The flaps D form pockets with the corresponding portion of the body A to permit of readily placing a finger inside of the flap to take hold thereof for the purpose mentioned.

The device is very simple, can be readily 5 5 applied to a corset, and the fabric material selected is preferably of a color and texture like that used for the body A, but different material may be employed.

The holding devices may also be formed by 60 plaits directly on the body, instead of being sewed thereto in separate strips, as described.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent- 1. A corset, provided on its body portion and adjacent to the busks with holding devices, each consisting of a strip of fabric material secured along its outer edge to the body portion, and also transversely at intervals to form flaps adapted to be taken hold of by the wearer to draw the busks together, substantially as shown and described.

2. A corset having busks with fastening devices for joining. the edges of the corset and having adjacent to each busk a strip of flexible material running longitudinally with the busks and attached to the corset at one edge of each strip to form holding devices by which the corset may be grasped.

JULIA OANBY MAOKEY.

Witnesses:

WYLIE McCAsLIN, BLANCHE ELLIOTT. 

